“Robert McClellan Fur Post 1805-1806”
305
1960
Yankton
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
In 1806 the mouth of the James River was about one-half mile South. When Lewis & Clark came down the Missouri in 1806 they found, ‘in first bottom below James River,' the trade post
of Robert McClellan occupied by him for trade during the winter of 1805-06, the second trade post on the Upper Missouri River.
Location
Yankton County, on Hwy 50 west of Gayville
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